PRIMARY clipboard paste

Martin Pohlack mp26 at os.inf.tu-dresden.de
Sat Sep 25 22:39:51 CEST 2010


On 25.09.2010 17:53, Michael Witten wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 04:39, Martin Pohlack <mp26 at os.inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
>> CLIPBOARD can simply be inserted with Shift-Ins in urxt.
> 
> Shift-Ins uses the PRIMARY selection.
> 
>   $ printf CLIPBOARD | xclip -selection c
>   $ printf PRIMARY   | xclip -selection p
> 
> Then `Shift-Ins' should yield:
> 
>   PRIMARY

Yes, you are absolutely right.  After having confused this now the
second time in a row, let me offer a link to the ultimate resource for
reference:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-latest.txt

Cheers,
Martin




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